Jay Rockefeller: “I appreciate peoples' concerns. I understand that there's a frustration.”

We simply cannot afford to take this major step backwards and jeopardize the future of generations by allowing CHIP to expire.

If funding is not continued for CHIP, it is going to be a nightmare.

one of the things that happened with the CBO scoring was that yes, there was a cost because you were keeping CHIP operating, but there was a savings because the children were not transferring into the Affordable Care Act, for example.

I thank Senator Leahy for attempting to address my concerns about this bill. I thank his committee staff for working with my committee staff to insert clarifying report language.